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There is a guy that posts here that goes by the handle " RiverDiver" and I'm pretty sure he's from S.C.. I'm sure it's not him, but the guy could start a heluva thread if it is.

Yep. Have a lot of dives logged in that river.

Truly blackwater diving. Technically you don’t swim along the bottom as in normal scuba diving, you weight yourself heavy and crawl around on the bottom. Visibility in a lot of the areas with a good light can range from arms length to a couple of inches.

The screwdriver he has isn’t really used to pry fossils from the bottom, you spike it into the bottom to try and hold position when the current is rolling.

Tons of gators in that river, and big ones. Troy Landry would want a bigger gun on some of them. We have a short gator season here that you have to get a permit through a lottery, my son and his buddies had one night to go out. They hooked an 8 footer because they were running out of time, they shot him in the head with a 9mm boatside. Thought he was dead, before they tried pulling him in he came back to life, tried eating the transom of the boat. Took four more shots to finish him off.

They took it to the processor, couple other guys were there with 12-13 footers they’d killed the same night.

Tons of stories from diving there.

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Posted by VolSquatch

First Coast

Member since Sep 2023

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Posted on 4/24/24 at 8:42 am to riverdiver

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Visibility in a lot of the areas with a good light can range from arms length to a couple of inches.

I'll stick to the springs in Florida

But I have gone out to some shipwrecks off Jax/St Aug before and we have Great Whites around fairly often. Visibility and the current just isn't very good in the Atlantic. I try not to think about it

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Posted by auggie

Opelika, Alabama

Member since Aug 2013

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Posted on 4/24/24 at 8:47 am to riverdiver

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Truly blackwater diving. Technically you don’t swim along the bottom as in normal scuba diving, you weight yourself heavy and crawl around on the bottom. Visibility in a lot of the areas with a good light can range from arms length to a couple of inches.

I made my living as a mussel diver back in the 90s.
It's similar. You weight yourself down and crawl along the bottom.
We would use a compressor and airline though and pull your boat behind you.
On most rivers, it would be blackwater, can barely see your hand on your mask.
On The Tennessee River though, you could usually see pretty well and it's cool diving.

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